Our projects

 

The UMCU EpiLab shares a passion for unravelling the brain’s mysteries. Epilepsy is nested within the brain’s network and it’s expression unveils brain functioning. Also, our work ventures optimal diagnosis and even cure through surgery for an otherwise lifelong disease for many people. This are our main research pillars:

 We capture epileptic and physiological activity with non-invasive methods, like EEG, EEG-fMRI, magnetoencephalography and metabolic imaging.

 

 

 

We use invasive EEG to delineate epileptic tissue, characterize the epileptic network and understand the effect on the rest of the brain to optimize and often directly guide epilepsy surgery based on advanced signal analysis.

We use electrical stimulation to measure the epileptic network and we test neurophysiology against surgical outcome in seizures and cognition.

 

 

 

We collaborate with basic scientists to directly translate back and forth between basic research, like brain organoids, tissue electrophysiology, and our clinical findings.

 

 

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